On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 12:55, adam beecher wrote:
> Anyone ever upgraded a Red Hat box using apt for rpm? I have one to go from
> 8.0 to 9.0 and another to go from 7.3 to 9.0. Want to do this manually as a
> test run for my remote machines.
I haven't used apt for rpm but I did upgrade 7.2 to 9 (first time
I did an upgrade, previously I always wiped and installed from
scratch). It worked, which I was rather surprised at. The only
problems have been a couple of minor config issues, due to older
config files pre-existing from 7.2 and being used by 9 (eg Apache).
The conventional wisdom that you should *never* upgrade but always
replace may be due for revision.
///Peter
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